Persisting /dev/random state across reboots

[Richard Salz]

At shutdown, a process copies /dev/random to /var/random-seed which is 
used on reboots.
Is this a good, bad, or "shrug, whatever" idea?
I suppose the idea is that "all startup procs look the same" ?

tnx.

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